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Show RUSSIANS TO FIGHT ALLIESJN fiORTH BOLSHEVIKI CONCLUDE NEW PEACE PACT WITH THE HUNS, TURNING OVER COUNTRY. Germany to Prevent Finns from Attacking At-tacking Russia, While Bolsheviki Promises to Pay Six Billion Marks for Protection. Washington. A new treaty signed In Berlin between Bolsbeviki-coii-trolled Russia and Germany provides that, if the Russians fight against the allies in the north, Germany will guarantee guar-antee no attack against Russia by Finland. Fin-land. Germany further guarantees that the coasting and fishing fleets of Russia Rus-sia and Finland now in Russian waters wa-ters will not be molested. In return for this the Bolsheviki promise to pay to Germany six billion marks, of which one billion is to be in goods from the Ukraine, 2,o00,000,000 in gold and paper and the remainder in German Ger-man marks or Russian gold. This information came to the state department in u dispatch from Ambassador Am-bassador Francis at Archangel. It is assumed at the state department that this is one of the supplements to the Brest-Li to vsk treaty. - It also indicates the determination of Germany to utilize the Bolsheviki to the utmost in the efforts to stem the activities of the allied forces, the Czechoslovaks and the Don Cossacks and other loyal Russians. |